MLK's Economic Agenda
b'Not only have we reduced Martin Luther King\'s vision to a single line from his "I Have a Dream" speech, we have also forgotten or ignored his vision for economic equity.\\xa0\\n\\nIn this episode I talk about King\'s economic agenda--one that he had from the beginning of his work as a pastor and moral philosopher all the way back in the 1950s and not just in the last few years of his life.\\xa0\\n\\nWe also get into how the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday came to be and a 15 year saga to get to sign the bill into law.\\xa0\\n\\nSome resources you\'ll want to check out to learn more:\\xa0\\n\\n\\nTo the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice\\n\\n\\nArticle- Jobs Are Harder to Create Than Voting Rolls\\n\\n\\nListen\\xa0to "Letter from Birmingham Jail" on Pass The Mic\\n\\n\\nNonviolence 365- The King Center\\n\\n\\nFreedmen\'s Bureau\\xa0Transcription Project- Smithsonian Institute\\xa0\\n\\nBe sure to support projects like this one by subscribing to\\xa0JemarTisby.Substack.com\\xa0and this Footnotes podcast!\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'